Recent announcements of who's coming here soon

Published 4:35 pm, Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The rumors are true

Look out, old Fleetwood Mac is back! So sayeth the classic rock band's website if not that of the Times Union Center in Albany where the on-again/off-again group is scheduled to play on Wednesday, June 19. Stay tuned.

SPAC goes country

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center has announced a foursome of big-name country music concerts for the summer with amphitheater and lawn passes — otherwise known as 2013 Country Megatickets — for all four Sunday shows going on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday for $325 and $149.50, respectively. Individual tickets and on-sale dates will be announced later. The lineup includes: Brad Paisley with Chris Young and Lee Brice on June 2; Rascal Flatts with The Band Perry on June 16; Jason Aldean with Jake Owen and Thomas Rhett on Aug. 11; and Luke Bryan with Thompson Square and Florida Georgia Line on Aug. 25.

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Music on the Mountain

Hunter Mountain has added another special event, The Taste of Country Music Festival, from Thursday, June 13 through Saturday, June 15. Various camping, no-camping, one-day and all-day ticket options are available starting at 10 a.m. Friday. The headliners are Willie Nelson & Family and Lady Antebellum, but the bill also includes Trace Adkins, Billy Currington, Hunter Hayes, Montgomery Gentry, Joe Nichols, Gloriana, Justin Morre, Dustin Lynch and Blackberry Smoke

Melissa and Jerry

Tanglewood in Lenox, Ma., recently announced a couple of contemporary shows among the BSO offerings. Rocker Melissa Etheridge, last seen at the Palace in Albany in October, will be in the Shed on Friday, June 21. Meanwhile, the Boston Pops, led by Keith Lockhart, join in on the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration on Saturday, June 22, with Warren Haynes and members of The Dead

More Mayhem on tap

We don't know the band lineup and we have no official word from SPAC, but the Rockstar Mayhem Festival 2013 is scheduled for a stop in Saratoga Springs on Saturday, July 20.

Even the Van Dyck Lounge in Schenectady is getting in on the comedy act with Saturday night stand-up shows in February. Tom McTiernan & Nick Marra are on Feb. 9; Mike Gaffney & Brian Cichocki perform Feb. 16; and Moody McCarthy & Mike Speirs take over the joint on Feb. 23.

I'm funny? Funny how?

Catch the "Saturday Night Live" vet comedian Jim Breuer at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass., on Thursday, June 6

Naughty and noodly

Singing — and somewhat salacious — Stephen Lynch comes around for another show at The Egg in Albany on Friday, March 15. Tickets go on sale Friday at 11 a.m. Also at The Egg, keyboard player, violinist and singer Eddie Jobson, known for his work with Roxy Music, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa and others, goes it alone on Tuesday, April 16.

Anderson: movie music

Experimental musician and composer Laurie Anderson brings her surreal worldview back to the Capital Region a couple time in the coming months, but for two shows on Thursday, May 2, she'll be screening "The Movies of Laurie Anderson" at EMPAC on the RPI campus in Troy, with musical accompaniment by Anderson and Pauline Oliveros

Black is back

Black Francis, previously (and forever?) of the Pixies, goes it alone at Helsinki Hudson in Hudson on Friday, Feb. 8, save for support player Reid Paley.

Rapid fire rapper

Rapper MGK (AKA Machine Gun Kelly) is set for a gig at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany on Friday, March 1. We just haven't gotten the official say-so from the venue yet.

Folk singer Ellis Paul is at WAMC's The Linda in Albany on Sunday, March 3. On that same date, British folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner along with the Sleeping Souls will be at the Upstate Concert Hall in Clifton Park.

Sticking it to Bearsville

Stick Men, the trio made up of former King Crimson-ers Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto, aided by new guy Markus Reuter, play Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on Wednesday, March 20.

1 Guy, big sounds

Las Vegas native Mike Silverman, better known as the one-man band That 1 Guy, brings his homemade instruments to Red Square in Albany on Friday, March 22.